Neat! Using the rare floppy drive or the cassette drive?

@@TheTXDj love using the floppy but now using SD cards in the ADAM!

hy what is the name of that transformer from your avatar

***** Oh hey, I'm not there very often, so I'll go check and see. Thanks!

I think its pwm effect

hy what is the name of that transformer from your avatar

@@LiviuDragon niggatron

Interesting. One thing I enjoyed about CP/M was that some machines shared the same hardware setups for some of their features, and you could take the driver from another machine and make it work with very minor tweaks.

Exactly. Also, don't forget that you can connect an 8" floppy drive to a PC. The pinout and setup of the drive are different than a 3.5 or 5.25 disk. Still, the geometries are the same for equivalent capacity, just the same as, in the case of the Eagle in this video, which has "Quad Density" disks (i.e., 80 track versions with the same encoding and other geometry equivalents with lesser density disks). It would allow you to image and write images for 8" disks. For example, with the Eagle, since it's an 80-track drive (and was available in single or double-sided versions, the equivalent formatted capacity for single-sided is 360KB, and double-sided is 720 KB. For the 5.25" disks like this, a 1.2MB drive is required, as standard 360KB drives cannot handle the double track density due to stepping and head width limitations. Likewise, a double-sided 8" floppy uses the same encoding and stepping as a 5.25" 1.2MB drive. What I'm saying mirrors what you're saying, when restoring some of these older machines to operation, you have options.

@@TheTXDj The next issue is the 8" drives. Gave them away back in the early 90's. Just one of my mini regrets over time. The drives were attached to a full CPM system and a dead hard drive. Just part of my conversion to PC's.

that is covered in the video. I used either IMP or MEX or MDM7 if I remember correctly.

Matt - yes, makes sense. Do you already have it up and running with the emulator? If so, and so long as you can present a "blank image" as perhaps B: drive, you should be able to manipulate that image the same as you would a physical floppy. Are you running off your floppies at all? Or just trying to get the virtual side online before archiving the physical media? I've never done the exact thing that you're talking about there - but if you're able to get the system A) running (off physical or virtual), AND B) are able to make the emulator give the machine a blank floppy image, however that emulator works- THEN C) I could do a video specifically about backing up data to another floppy disk, and the methods should be identical to your emulator setup. Alternatively - using methods nearly identical to what I described in this video will let you install software that you can use to image all your disks and archive them to your modern computer via serial.

As long as it doesn't require terminal controls, or bypass the operating system calls, it will run.

Alright, thanks.

@@80sCompaqPC The one other exception (which won't affect you on a Kaypro) is that code that makes use of Z80 instructions won't run on an 8080. Your Kaypro has a Z80, so that's not a concern.

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Absolutely nothing. It requires a disk. The images are out there, you just need a DOS or Linux machine to write the images to media. If yours is one of the 80-track drives, you'll need an HD drive so it can step to all 80 tracks, even though the media itself is not HD for this machine.

Awesome, it might actually be functional then. :D My only question then is can I use a computer with a 5.25" drive and Windows 9x to write a disk image of the CPM version it needs or does it specifically have to be DOS. If so what should I use to write the images. Also convieniently I happen to have a 1.2MB diskette drive installed in my main Windows 9x machine. :D

So if you have the drive, and that machine is win9x, it will probably work since 95/98 were still based on dos. You need either ImageDisk or TeleDisk, both of these are DOS utils that take a file and write a disk for them. The Eagle disks can be found in one of the archives out there, I think bitsavers has them. As you probably recall in this video, I talked about one of my originals being bad, so I imaged a replacement and transferred the disk into the original sleeve. I got that image from out on the interwebs. :)

Hard? Not at all. I developed for years on it. To xfer files was a snap for me. I would either ise the debugged or assembler to write some tiny code to xfer files over the serial port. Did this for many, many machines

stonent that laptop ran vista, yes

My mother in law ran Vista until last Christmas when we bought her a new laptop. I don't think it was bad after the service packs came out, but it had the stain of the name and had to go.

stonent I never had any complaints about vista once I got past the initial differences. Win 7 is vista with some minor differences. Of course I am weird, and I liked WinME also.

I liked Windows 8.1 It was a little less intrusive than 10 once you installed the Classic Shell program. All the Windows 7 menus were still there if you knew the commands to find them.

On Win8, I like Start8. It is a pretty decent classic shell replacement. same folks make "ModernMix" which lets you run metro apps in a window.

That is dependent on your system. You would have to format the disk and sysgen it, then you can copy files onto it.

Not with LPT, but with COM. The Kaypro would be much easier than the machine in this video. There are terminal program disk images out there. Just write them to floppies with your DOS machine, and you're ready to go. You can transfer the files much easier that way, vs the way a machine like this Eagle would.

Thanks I've found some info about that on Terry Stewart's site. I'll try it when the K-10 arrives)

Why would you think it would be capable of that? It's a Z80, not an x86.

The original modem7 was 8080 code As I recall, the 7 ment it would work with 7 bit ASCII data modem from PMMI and the modem protocol for binary data

Nope. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer

Newseeep is a file manager